Katarina Xóchitl Vargas (she/her) is an emerging, Xicana poet raised in Mexico-Tenochtitlan, who writes resistance poetry to explore identity. Her poems appear in Somos en escrito, Cloud Women’s Quarterly Journal, The Acentos Review, Penumbra, Barrio Panther, Fragmented Voices, La Raíz Magazine and Xinachtli Journal. Xóchitl is the first-place recipient of the Mulberry Literary Fresh Voices Award and her unpublished manuscript, The Half That Runs was selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as one of two runners-up for the 2024 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.

Contributions: After you died [Summer 2024]